When the clamwin antivirus will have the real-time scanner?????, you guys can do the real-time scanner engine using the visual sudio 2010 or the borland delphi..... ClamWin is a great antivirus as far as I know... Free and useful!

Hello:

The ClamWin project has been developing a real-time scanner (version 1.0) now for a couple of years. The problem is time and money. The two developers must make a living for themselves and their family, so they cannot really devote much time to the project. It is all they can do to port the Clam AV changes over to Windows with each new Clam version. They have had several volunteers to finish it; however, no one has stuck with it, but the code is about 50% done now. What is left is to add browser and USB protection and decide what to do about the real-time scanner. They are now thinking of integrating ClamSentinel for the real-time scan. Sentinel is not a kernel-mode scanner, but it has good heuristics, so using it can speed up the development.

The developers decided to partner with the Ask Toolbar people to get revenue to finish the project, and they now have revenue. It is not enough to pay a Western programmer, however, so they are trying to hire someone from India or Eastern Europe (Ukraine). They have talked to a couple of people, but nothing has come of it yet. I think they will probably have a ClamWin 1.0 sometime late next year.

In the meantime, the Clam Sentinel real-time add-in does a pretty good job at letting users scan with ClamWin in real-time. It does not repair viruses, but it is able to detect about 60% of new, unknown Windows PE file malware with its own heuristic scanner, and it has the ClamWin/Clam scanner and AV signatures. It also scans USB drives. It scans files when they are added to, copied, or modified on the computer.

Regards,

Bob

A compromise which I have found works well is using Clamwins facilty to scan programs in memory as often as possible, whihc is once every hour

I create an empty directory called clamwin
Set up a sheduled scan to run every hour tageted at the empty clamwin directoy
Check the "Scan Programs in Memory" option.

The result is a scan which runs very quickly (about 90 seconds on my machine), and is very unobrtrusive, I never notice it running while I am working.

It checks all programs loaded in memory, which hopefully should catch any nasties which have become resident.

I combine this with the freeware SpybotS&D which IS a real time scanner for malware but not viruses.

Hope this may be useful to people

JoTraGo

That is a pretty good way to go, Jo. Malwarebytes adds a scan of the autostart folder to a memory scan, and they call it a "flash" scan. I do that when working malware, but I also add my users\appdata\local\Bob folder, and system32\drivers. It does take several more minutes than the memory scan alone. I wish the ClamWin developers would add the ability to do some sort of quick scan. Scanning the entire computer for malware is, for the most part, wasted, as it will more than likely be found in just a few places.

Regards,

Good analyze.
Are these two features really giving performances in realtime?

What I am looking for is automatic scanning of any removable disk when it is mounted.

ClamWin is an on-demand scanner that only scans manually when you initiate it or as scheduled. I don't know your environment, but you might want to give Clam Sentinel a try. It allows you to use ClamWin as a real-time scanner and adds its own heuristic scan engine to detect malware for which there are no signatures. It is primarily for use on stand-alone computers (Win 98-Win 7) but does support multiple users (not necessarily networked) and multiple removable drives. It is free, open source software available at https://sourceforge.net/projects/clamsentinel/ on the web. I would not recommend using it in a networked environment or in a commercial business, for which you probably need heavily-tested, commercial security software.

Regards,

Just a follow-up question. Can you schedule the scanning even if the computer is not on or not really on-time for the scanning schedule?

yeah...you are right...nice support

Re: scheduled scans, the computer must be on for a scan to happen. A scan will complete as scheduled ifwhen the computer is on. If you want to scan at a non-scheduled time, you can do a manual scan via right-clicking on the directory or file while you are in Windows Explorer.

Re: dropping Avast, ClamWin is not a real-time scanner--it only scans on-demand, as scheduled or via a manual scan. If you surf the web, you need a real-time scanner like Avast for protection from drive-by downloads, exploits, and other malware. ClamWin makes a good backup scanner to a real-time scanner

The Clam Sentinel project at https://sourceforge.net/projects/clamsentinel/ on the web provides a free program that enables you to scan with ClamWin in real-time. Clam Sentinel uses ClamWin and its signatures when scanning, but it also has its own heuristic scan engine that can detect malware for which therre is no ClamWin signature. A new Clam Sentinel version (1.19) will be out in about a week, and it will have greatly-improved protection, but it does not yet offer protection that is as good as Avast. If you use ClamSentinel and ClamWin, I still recommend regular scans with Malwarebytes' free antimalware or Kaspersky's free TDSSKiller program (Norman's free Malware Cleaner or Dr. Web's free Cureit for older computers). First-time Clam Sentinel users should read the Simple Guide that comes in the ClamSentinel download package.

Regards,

Can i purchase the software online?? i'd really use an antivirus pretty soon

ClamWin and Clam Sentinel are free to use. Other free AVs are Security Essentials, (Microsoft), Panda Free Cloud (Panda), AntiVir (Avira) and Avast. Without knowing anything about your surfing habits, I would recommend Security Essentials if you have a valid copy of Windows. Panda Free Cloud would also be good if you can't use Security Essentials. Consider ClamWin as a "backup" scanner after you get used to one of the above--it will give some extra protection.

Regards,

I am using clam win atm .. but its good to know how to go about securing myself .. thanks for the advise!